Fix a Popped Button in a Hurry

Step 1

Find a twist tie. If you can't find a basic sewing kit, locate a twist tie from a loaf of bread. (If you're at a restaurant, hotel, or someone's house, this shouldn't be a problem.) Strip the paper from the wire.

Step 2

Position your button. Align the buttonholes with the existing thread holes on your garment. From the fabric's underside, poke one end of the wire through a thread hole, guide it through the corresponding buttonhole, and bring it back down through the diagonally opposite hole and the fabric.

Step 3

Twist-tie it. Twist the wire ends once, leaving a single long tail; pull tightly as you do this so it cinches up against the fabric. Draw the tail up through an unoccupied hole and then down through the diagonally opposite hole. Twist it closed once more.